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Sophie Germain : an essay in the history of the theory of elasticity

Why should the story of a woman's role in the development of a scientific theory be written? Biographically, it is about a woman who believed in the greatness of science and strove, with some measure of success, to participate in that noble, but wholly male-dominated, enterprise.Read more...